Walter Bliss designed the Tahoe Tavern for his father. Located a half mile south of Tahoe City, the brown-shingled hotel with its multiple gables was a favorite vacation spot for the wealthy from the Bay Area. Socialites from San Francisco ferried across to the Oakland Mole and took a train to the Tahoe Tavern, arriving on special spur rails that carried them directly to the hotel.

Source: NRHP Nomination for the Southern Pacific Railroad Company's Sacramento Depot